Blue Scrubs vs Green Scrubs at my school book store

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I was at my school book store yesterday picking up books and checking out the school supplies. They have scrubs there too. Which I honestly can't wait to purchase. However they had two kinds. Blue scrubs and green scrubs. And they had a sign that said you needed to check with your instructor/program before purchasing.

I know that you don't go to my school. But can you give me an educated guess as to why there are two colors?

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I would guess that certain programs wear certain colors, like maybe the medical assistants or rad techs would be differentiated from the nursing students.

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My school was the same way. RN students wore green, LPN students wore blue, and every other program also had a different color. Just check to find out which color your program requires. Good Luck :)

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At my school, the bookstore has blue and green also. The blue is for RN students and the green is for CNA students.

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It's weird though. Because nowhere do I see that my school teaches CNA's. It's a 4 year university. And all I see that you can get is a BSN.

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If there are no other healthcare programs at all, only RN programs, maybe it's for different clinical days or groups.

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It's different for every school. Just depends on what color they decided to assign to each program.

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Specializes in ICU.

Does your school not offer any other health-related degrees? Dental hygiene, Radiography, Sonography, Diatetics, Vet Science are all 4-year B.S. programs offered at my university that might require scrubs - even though a 4 year university doesn't offer CNA or LPN, they still might have other programs that require scrubs.

Or maybe your school has 1 color of scrubs for first year nursing students, and another color for the upper levels?

There are many possibilities. You could call your nursing department office and ask. :)

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Nope. My school offers Athletic Training, Community Health, Health Sciences, and Human Performance. I don't think you'd need scrubs for any of those. Maybe for Com. Health or Health sciences...But the upper level and lower level thing sounds like it makes more sense.

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Specializes in CVICU.

Why don't you try asking your bookstore or your instructors?

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Why don't you try asking your bookstore or your instructors?

Oh, just because there was no one around and I figured I'd find out eventually. LOL I just asked this question because it came to mind and I was bored honestly.

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1. Asking someone would be too easy

2. It gave all of us something to think about.

:D :D :D :D

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